Author: seabreeze
Date: 2017-03-13 08:35
Yes, Kuckmeier distinguishes 3 different types of Play Easy mouthpiece, French Boehm, German, and Austrian. The Austrian has the longest, closest facings. I meant to distinguish Ottensamer's mouthpiece from the French clarinet models that some American players use on their Boehm clarinets, and I forgot that Kuckmeier also listed the Austrian model in a separate category.
Ottensasmer seemed to be speaking about what makes a clarinet Viennese, and since that would follow in the tradition of Viennese makers like F. Koktan, who made Leopold Wlach's and Viktor Polatschek's clarinets and Hammerschmidt, it did not seem amiss to mention "some Viennese makers" even if Kronthaler is German, because he is following a Viennese tradition in making that model clarinet.
Viennese clarinets have generally had large bores (Wlach's Koktan was 15.2 mm), but since Ottensamer stressed the pains that Kronthaler took to fit the clarinet to his own body, playing style, and wishes, I wondered whether that meant that he might have deviated from the usual bore measurements in crafting this special pair of instruments.
Post Edited (2017-03-13 08:47)
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